EXETER 1, WYCOMBE 1.

GARY Waddock is still waiting for his first win as Wycombe Wanderers boss after his side conceded an injury-time equaliser at Exeter City this afternoon.

Blues looked to be home and dry as the clock ticked past 90 minutes with them leading from Matt Harrold's first-half penalty. But Barry Core denied them two morale-boosting points with a close-range finish from a 92nd minute corner.

So that is two points in two games under Waddock, but while last week's draw felt like a victory this one, having got so close, feels like a defeat.

The big news before kick-off was that Waddock brought Tommy Doherty back for his first appearance of the season.

He was in for Marlon Pack in a 4-5-1 formation mirroring last weekend with the only other change in the starting 11 seeing Matt Bloomfield picked ahead of Ian Westlake, although on the bench there was no room for the goal hero against Colchester, Jon-Paul Pittman.

But typically, it was Doherty who dominated the early proceedings and his first touch back, a sweeping volleyed pass out to Matty Phillips on the left, reminded the 300 travelling fans what they've missed.

A few more neat passes from the former Northern Ireland international knitted Blues together as they made a sprightly start to the game that nearly brought them a goal inside five minutes.

Like last week, Scott Davies was the supplier with a wicked free-kick into the area for one of his centre backs to attack.

This time is was Leon Johnson on the end of it, but although he made good contact his header went just wide.

It was far and away the best chance of the opening ten minutes as Blues continued in the same passing vein as last week, although Exeter were a threat with long balls behind Wanderers and after eight minutes Scott Shearer was booked for an uncompromising body check on Adam Stansfield as the striker tried to go past him 30 yards from goal. However, the lively start was not maintained as the swirling winds began to win out. Wycombe lost their early rhythm while Exeter became almost exclusively reliant on long diagonal balls into the Lewis Hunt/Michael Duberry area of the pitch.

Blues were more than once exposed in this area, but Exeter's end product was dire and with 35 minutes gone, although the hosts had enjoyed most of the ball they had yet to draw a meaningful save from Shearer.

Apart from that early free kick, Waddock's team had offered nothing going forward either but suddenly they found their thrust and created four excellent chances before half time.

Phillips had the first of them when Wanderers counter-attacked at breakneck pace. With the Exeter centre backs still chugging back from a corner, Phillips burst into space down the right channel and drew a fine stop from Andy Marriott with a powerful shot – although a square ball to Kevin Betsy, completely alone in the middle, might have been a better option.

Within a minute Blues went close again when Betsy's low cross picked out Harrold on the six-yard box but, under pressure, his shot lacked power and Marriott stooped to save.

Suddenly Wycombe looked menacing and after 41 minutes they broke through when Betsy drove into the area before drawing a foul from Matt Taylor.

Harrold stepped up and although Marriott guessed correctly he could do nothing as the ball whistled past his left palm.

One-nil was about fair on chances created, although Harrold nearly made it two just before the half-time whistle when he spun on a dime ten yards out, but his shot went high.

Harrold went goal-hunting again immediately after the restart as Blues kicked off the second period just like they finished the first but, like in the first half, their momentum quickly ran out.

James Dunne, Stuart Fleetwood and Marcus Stewart, twice, all went close for the home team and for ten minutes Shearer's goal lived a charmed life.

Twice the keeper had to be at his best to protect the lead as Exeter enjoyed their best spell of the game. But by 65 minutes, with the Grecians having already used all their substitutions, the storm had begun to abate.

Waddock introduced Chris Zebroski, Lewis Montrose and John Mousinho for the final mile and Zebroski might even have wrapped it up with a second goal 15 minutes from the end, but he wanted too long in the area.

And in the end it proved costly.

With little under ten minutes left Scott Golbourne let fly with a 20-yard rasper that was searing into the far corner of the goal until Shearer, at full stretch, made a fingertip save to tip the ball away.

That was the final scare until injury time, when Shearer performed heroics again to palm away a looping header bound for the top corner.

Apart from his earlier interventions, those two saves alone were worthy of three points. But it wasn't to be as Corr stole in to keep Wanderers waiting.